The BJP did well in the elections in areas that were formerly Maoist strongholds or extremist-affected areas, especially the coal belt in Bellampalli, Chennur, Mancherial and Manthani segments of the Peddapalli LS constituency. The BJP also penetrated interior areas of these assembly constituencies in the last 10 years. From militancy, the mood among the youths have dramatically changed to 'bhakthi' in recent years.
Koyyala Emaji of Bellampalli, who is now working as BJP state executive member, and defeated candidate in the 2018 assembly elections, said there was no impact of the Naxalites on the coal belt areas in the last 15 years. People, especially the youths in both urban, rural and interior areas, were attracted to the BJP and pinned their faith in Narendra Modi. However, Emaji said the performance of the BJP was poor in the last two assembly elections.
The party gradually increased its strength and gave a tough fight to their rivals in the 2024 parliament elections. He said the impact of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and construction of the Ramalayam in Ayodhya was visible in the coal belt areas. BJP candidate Sogala Kumar got only 92,606 votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections whereas its candidate Gomasa Srinivas got 342871 votes in the present elections in Peddapalli LS.
The BJP got 32577 votes in the Bellampalli assembly segment, 33775 in Chennur, 59644 votes in Mancherial, 68766 votes in Peddapalli and 32634 votes in Manthani assembly segment now. There was a huge su.
